[Rfu-barnraising] wireless

[Phil Stinard]

I looked into this earlier in the summer.  I believe that there are 
additional licensing fees, and restrictions on how many songs you can play 
by a particular artist and from a particular album.  Personally, I do not 
wish to be hindered by these restrictions.  I would vote NO on streaming the 
station on the internet.

--Phil


>From: Andrew Ó Baoill <andrew at funferal.org>
>To: rfu-barnraising at lists.chambana.net
>Subject: Re: [Rfu-barnraising] wireless
>Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:29:19 -0500
>
>A key question:
>Does RFU want to stream its signal, and what impact will streaming  have on 
>our budget etc?
>
>Personally, a chunk of my current academic research is focused on the  
>conceptual challenges webstreaming and digitisation of radio can pose  for 
>radio, particularly non-commercial and community radio.
>
>Separately, streaming raises questions about license fees and  continued 
>maintenance of the web interface.
>
>I understand the desire to create a link between the WiFi and radio  ends 
>of the barnraising, and I'm also aware of some of the arguments  made in 
>favour of streaming by some WRFU members. I'd like to draw  attention, 
>however, to the fact that streaming is not necessarily  unproblematic from 
>either a practical or intellectual/conceptual  viewpoint.
>
>Andrew
>
>On 28 MFómh 2005, at 18:18, Danielle Chynoweth wrote:
>
>>i talked to dave young who is the technical lead for (CUWiN). i  asked 
>>dave
>>three questions about wireless at the barnraising since we need to
>>spend some time figuring out how to bring wireless into the fold.   i know
>>sascha has already send some ideas to the list.  what follows are
>>additional ideas (in QA format):
>>
>>DC: What can volunteers do to help build wireless capacity at the
>>barnraising?
>>
>>DY:
>>1) Set up wireless access to the IMC DSL line through the IMC  building.
>>2) Set up a node on the 35' RFU antenna on the roof.
>>3) Perhaps the city could use help constructing their nodes, although
>>volunteers some times fuck it up, like they did during our node
>>construction party on a fraction of our nodes.
>>
>>DC: What role do you want to play at the barnraising?
>>
>>DY: Offer a DIY networking workshop - a whimsical look at crazy  shit you
>>can do with wireless, cable, and internet protocol.  I do not want  to put
>>out fires when shit doesn't work.
>>
>>DC: Will the CUWiN network (see http://meshsandbox.com/cuwin.html)  be 
>>able
>>to stream the RFU signal on November 13th so we can demonstrate LPFM
>>broadcasting over a local wireless mesh network?
>>
>>DY: Probably.  We need to bring someone with audio streaming  expertise in
>>and test it at the end of October.
>>
>>- danielle
>>
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